School Nutrition Scramble 2016: June 14 15, 2016

School Nutrition Scramble 2016: June 14 15, 2016 The Minnesota Department of Education (MDE) - Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) is excited to offer a School Lunch Scramble 2016 training opportunity on Tuesday, June 14 and Wednesday, June 15, 2016. New this year: participants will have three options for attending the Scramble: View the webinar sessions at greater Minnesota Educational Service Cooperative locations. Attend live sessions at MDE in Roseville. View the webinar sessions via any computer (at home, the lake, school, etc.). Participants will be able to select from a variety of school food service related topics. Courses are offered concurrently and repeated on each day so administrative staff, as well as food service staff, can attend. Each course will be available via webinar one time only on either June 14 or 15. The Scramble schedule and session descriptions are provided below. Educational Service Cooperative Locations The following educational service cooperatives will be provide webinar viewing of the School Lunch Scramble sessions so you can view with other local School Nutrition Program providers. Each cooperative has set up their own schedule depending on room availability and is handling registration separately. Check with the educational service cooperative in your area for registration information. This will be a great way to network with other School Nutrition Program providers in your area. Questions about these training locations should be directed to each service cooperative location. Northwest Service Cooperative, 114 First Street West, Thief River Falls, MN 56701, 218-681-0900 Lakes Country Service Cooperative, 1001 East Mount Faith, Fergus Falls, MN 56537, 218-739-3273 Southwest Service Cooperative, Market Street Mall, 1420 East College Drive, Marshall, MN 56258, 507-537-2240 South Central Service Cooperative, 2075 Lookout Drive, North Mankato, MN 56003, 507-389-1425 National Joint Powers Alliance, 202 12th Street Northeast, Staples, MN 56479, 218-894-1930 or 888-894-1930

Registration for In-person Sessions at MDE in Roseville Registration for Roseville is on a first-come first-served basis. Some of the live sessions at Roseville have registration limits due to room size. This year s registration will allow each participant to register using one link for any session on both days. Only one participant per registration. Registration confirmations will be e-mailed immediately after you register to the e-mail address entered on the registration. Accuracy in entering your email will ensure you receive the registration confirmation. School Lunch Scramble 2016 Roseville registration. Webinar Sessions No registration is needed for webinar sessions. Two webinar links will be available each day to access the sessions based on the room the sessions are presented in. Refer to the schedule below. The links will be open for the entire day so there will be no need to login to each session individually. However, if you will not be participating in all sessions, you may login and out as needed. Links for each room are provided in the table below. Room CC15 Tuesday, June 14, 2016 Tuesday CC15 No Webinar Tuesday CC17 Wednesday, June 15, 2016 No Webinar Wednesday CC16 Webinars Wednesday CC17 Webinars. Important Webinar Information The audio will be provided via computer only. Please ensure that you are using a computer that has audio capabilities. We recommend that you test the computer that you will be using to view the webinars to ensure that you will be able to connect. Select this link and follow the instructions on the page to test your computer. We have found the majority of technical issues are related to receiving audio on computers that are not audio capable or have speaker issues. If the computer you will be viewing the webinar on uses Windows 10 as the operating system, prior to viewing review WebEx Windows 10 Compatibility Issues.

School Lunch Scramble 2016 Schedule Tuesday, June 14, 2016, Sessions Room CC15 Session Time 8:30 a.m. 9:30 a.m. Procurement Fundamentals Operations 9:45 a.m. 10:45 a.m. Procurement Plans, Tools and Templates Operations 11 a.m. 12 p.m. Exploring USDA Foods Opportunities Nutrition ICAVES - A Tool for Approving Meal Applications Avoiding Meal Benefit Issuance Errors Partnering to Serve Homeless and Migrant Students What is a Process Category and Other Food Safety Plan Mysteries? Operations Learning Code: 2600 Help for Meeting Professional Standards Training Requirements Learning Code: 3400 Wellness Works! Implementing the NEW Federal Regulations in Local Wellness Policy Nutrition Learning Code 1100 This is a full-day course presented by the Institute of Child Nutrition. 12 p.m. 1 p.m. Lunch (on your own) Lunch (on your own) Lunch (on your own) Lunch (on your own)

Room CC15 Session Time 1 p.m. 2 p.m. Net Off Invoice: A New Model for USDA Foods Entitlements Nutrition 2:15 p.m. 3:15 p.m. Understanding Your Annual Financial Report Learning Code: 2240 CLiCS: New and Improved Personal Wellness and Nutrition for School Nutrition Staff Nutrition Learning Code: 1300 A New Look at Fruits and Vegetables Communications Marketing Learning Code: 4100 Stay Calm, Don t Retire: Overview of the Administrative Review Process Learning Code 3200 Wednesday, June 15, 2016, Sessions Room CC15 Session Time 8:30 a.m. 9:30 a.m. Procurement Fundamentals Operations ICAVES - A Tool for Approving Meal Applications What is a Process Category and Other Food Safety Plan Mysteries? Operations Learning Code: 2600 Nutrition Learning Code 1100 This is a full-day course presented by the Institute of Child Nutrition. 9:45 a.m. 10:45 a.m. Procurement Plans, Tools and Templates Operations Avoiding Meal Benefit Issuance Errors Help for Meeting Professional

Session Time Room CC15 11 a.m. 12 p.m. Exploring USDA Foods Opportunities Nutrition Partnering to Serve Homeless and Migrant Students Standards Training Requirements Learning Code: 3400 Wellness Works! Implementing the NEW federal regulations in Local Wellness Policy 12 p.m. 1 p.m. Lunch (on your own) Lunch (on your own) Lunch (on your own) Lunch (on your own) 1 p.m. 2 p.m. Net Off Invoice: A New Model for USDA Foods Entitlements Nutrition CLiCS: New and Improved A New Look at Fruits and Vegetables Communications Marketing Learning Code: 4100 2:15 p.m. 3:15 p.m. Understanding Your Annual Financial Report Learning Code: 2240 Personal Wellness and Nutrition for School Nutrition Staff Nutrition Learning Code: 1300 Stay Calm, Don t Retire: Overview of the Administrative Review Process Learning Code 3200 Course descriptions: Course descriptions are divided by content area: Meal Pattern and Nutritional Quality; Meal Access and Reimbursement; General Program Areas and Resource Management. Room CC15 to 60 participants each day.

Procurement Fundamentals 8:30 a.m. 9:30 a.m., Room CC15 Operations The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) will be emphasizing the procurement process over the next few years by introducing a procurement section to the administrative review. This session is the first part of a two-part series and will provide an overview of procurement methods, thresholds and procedures. Procurement Plans, Tools and Templates 9:45 a.m. 10:45 a.m., Room CC15 Operations This session is a second session of a two-part series and will take a deeper dive into procurement with the introduction of tools and templates for procurement. Exploring USDA Foods Opportunities 11 a.m. 12 p.m., Room CC15 Nutrition Schools have several options to utilizing their USDA Foods entitlement. This session will provide an overview of the five opportunities for using USDA Foods entitlements: Regular USDA Foods, Minnesota Rebate Program, Department of Defense (DoD) Fresh, Net Off Invoice and Fee for Service. Net Off Invoice: A New Model for USDA Foods Entitlements 1 p.m. 2 p.m., Room CC15 Nutrition Net Off Invoice (NOI) is a new Minnesota USDA Foods opportunity for USDA Foods entitlements. With NOI, the value of USDA Foods incorporated in processed foods received is automatically deducted from invoices at the time of delivery. This session will address how to participate in this USDA Foods option. Understanding Your Annual Financial Report 2:15 p.m. 3:15 p.m., Room CC15 Learning Code: 2240 All school nutrition sponsors are required to implement a financial management system that identifies revenues and expenditures. This session will review the Annual Financial Reports for public schools available on the MDE website and how to use the report to get a birds-eye view of the nutrition fund. to 60 participants each day.

ICAVES - A Tool for Approving Meal Applications 8:30 a.m. 9:30 a.m., This session will review using the Applications for Educational benefits to certify students for meal benefits based on household income and introduce ICAVES, an Excel spreadsheet that can be used to approve income applications. Avoiding Meal Benefit Issuance Errors 9:45 a.m. 10:45 a.m., Learning Code 3100 Errors in assigning meal benefits to students can impact the financial health of a school meal program. This session will highlight common errors in approving meal applications and direct certification. Partnering to Serve Homeless and Migrant Students 11 a.m. 12 p.m., MDE s homeless and migrant specialist will present basic information regarding identifying homeless and migrant students. Learn how to find the homeless liaison in your district and how to connect with a regional migrant recruiter in your area. CLiCS: New and Improved 1 p.m. 2 p.m., Improvements are being made to make your Cyber-Linked Interactive Child Nutrition System (CLiCS) experience more user friendly. This session will introduce you to the new features in CLiCS and refresh your knowledge about completing annual sponsor and site applications. Personal Wellness and Nutrition for School Nutrition Staff 2:15 p.m. 3:15 p.m., Nutrition Learning Code: 1300 Join Mary Brunner, MS, RD, LD, one of Hy-Vee s dietitians for a discussion on ways to focus on wellness and improve your personal nutrition. Mary will share from her wealth of knowledge from a certificate of training in adult weight management and as a certified personal trainer. Mary works at the Oakdale Hy-Vee location in the metro area. to 30 participants each day. What is a Process Category and Other Food Safety Plan Mysteries? 8:30 a.m. 9:30 a.m.,

Operations Learning Code: 2600 The foundation of developing a food safety plan for your facility is understanding menu process categories. This session will unravel the mysteries of process categories and show you how to use these categories to develop a food safety plan. Help for Meeting Professional Standards Training Requirements 9:45 a.m. 10:45 a.m., Learning Code: 3400 Training requirements of the Professional Standards rule are intended to build and strengthen skills for school food service workers. This session will introduce you to resources that will help you receive training to improve your skills and templates that will help track the training you receive. Wellness Works! Implementing the NEW Federal Regulations in Local Wellness Policy 11 a.m. 12 p.m., Participants will become familiar with a new toolkit that MDE will be releasing on updating local wellness policies. In addition, best practices and resources will be shared on how to expand local wellness policies from being owned by food service departments and instead be a shared, living document with a wider network of school stakeholders. A New Look at Fruits and Vegetables 1 p.m. 2 p.m., Communications Marketing Learning Code: 4100 Fruits and vegetables now make up half of the lunch tray. This session will explore ways to optimize quality and appeal to maximize student consumption of fruits and vegetables. Nutritional benefits of including a wide variety of fruits and vegetables in school meals will be reviewed. Techniques for safe handling and preparation of fruits and vegetables will be demonstrated. The session will also discuss behavioral economics in the serving line, Farm to School resources and more. Stay Calm, Don t Retire: Overview of the Administrative Review Process 2:15 p.m. 3:15 p.m., Nutrition Learning Code 1200 Your school is on the Administrative Review list for next school year. Stay calm, don t retire yet. This session will provide an overview of the Administrative Review process to help you stay calm and enjoy the summer. Special Full-Day Course Pre-registration required. No webinar option available. to 30 participants each day. (presented by the Institute of Child Nutrition)

8:30 a.m. 3:30 p.m., Nutrition Learning Code 1100 All menu planning in School Nutrition Programs is now based on food component groups with serving sizes specified by student grade groups. This session will cover the foundations of menu planning and specifics of each food component group. Meal pattern training will focus on Food-Based Menu Planning (FBMP) required for the School Breakfast Program (SBP) and the National School Lunch Program (NSLP). The session will look at whole grain-rich specifics, ways to incorporate vegetable subgroups in menus and take a closer look at ounce equivalent requirements for grains and meat/meat alternates. This is a full-day course offered twice during the scramble. Participants attending this course will not be able to attend any other sessions on the day they are registered.